Hyunhwa 'Henna' Lee (Nursing) and her transdisciplinary team, including graduate students Maiko Suarez (Medicine), and Jacob White (Anthropology), published “Exosomal microRNA Differential Expression in Plasma of Young Adults with Chronic Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Healthy Control” in Biomedicines for the special issue Brain Injury…

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has published the article "Historias Juridico-creativas por el Jurista Antonio de la Peña" in the journal Hipogrifo. The article compares the use of juridical details by Miguel de Cervantes in his story "El Curioso Impertinente" with the fictional writings by Italian jurist Poggio Bracciolini used in…

Zakai J. Olsen, '16 BS, '18 MS, and '21 PhD Mechanical Engineering and Kwang J. Kim (Mechanical Engineering) are the authors of a new journal publication,  "Characterizing the Transduction Behavior of Ionic Polymer-metal Composite Actuators and Sensors via Dimensional Analysis," which was published in Smart Materials and…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) published the article, "Applying the Integrated Marketing Communication Approach to Recruit and Retain African American Women" in the journal Health Promotion Perspectives with his former student, Traci Hayes, who now is a faculty member at University of Southern Mississippi. The article discusses…

Nikki E. Bennett, Silvio Ernesto, Mirabal Torres, and Peter B. Gray (all Anthropology) published "Exploratory Content Analysis of Direct-to-Consumer Pet Genomics: What is Being Marketed and What are Consumers Saying?" in PLOS ONE. This was the first study on the pet DTC genomics industry in which vendor webpages and consumer product reviews were…

Pearl Kim and Jay Shen (both Healthcare Administration), Ji Yoo (Medicine), Zahra Mojtahedi (Public Health), and international visiting scholars Moon Kyung Joo, Jinwook Hwang, Ja Seol Koo, and Hee-Taik Kang just have published an article, " Ten-year Trends of Utilizing Palliative Care and Palliative Procedures in…

Fawn Douglas (Art) was recognized earlier this month as the January Citizen of the Month for the city of Las Vegas. The presentation was made by Councilwoman Olivia Diaz. Douglas is co-founder of Nuwu Art + Activism Studios, curator of the recent Ah’-Wah-Nee exhibition at UNLV, a member of the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe, and former tribal councilwoman…

Christopher Johansen (Social and Behavioral Health), along with colleagues from Claremont Graduate University, recently published a research article, "Exploring Mediation Pathways on the Relationship between Acculturation and Binge Eating among Latino Adolescents," in Appetite. .

Susanna Newbury (Art) is the author of The Speculative City, which is a finalist for the College Art Association’s Charles Rufus Morey Award for Distinguished Books in Art History.